Conference kaosws::canada

    get a hold of yourself Bernie, go down Carling to the Crappy tire @
    Carlingwood, spend that Canadian Tire money then keep heading east
    and buy a 12 pack of Export. Crack one open, get behind the wheel and
    pretend its the good old days....

	Bernie,

	The problem is your perception, you pass through a customs
	gate when you enter Bayshore, you are actually in Bayshore
	territory of New Zealand. Not too much hockey there but
	most store do carry boom-a-rangs.

	Brian is correct, Carling-Wood is compltely Canadian, beer
	and hockey pucks abound.

	Oi,

	Charlie

    Carlingwood sounds promising but what about the bacon?
    
    Actually your responses are typically Canadian..."oh well, lets try 
    somewhere else".  I'm sick of this.  It's about time we took up
    arms.  Before you know it, we'll have to go to Sweden for our hockey 
    gear and we'll have to wear those helmets that look like minuature
    garbage cans.  Where are we heading?  Look at Bayshore, not only do they not
    sell hockey stuff or take Canadian Tire money,  but they even replaced 
    the religious store, "Miracle Mart" with that American junk distributor 
    "Wal Mart".  I'm just thankful that I didn't need snowbags.
    
    Gawd!  Next thing you know we'll be forced to drink Bud and instead
    of "Jos Louis" cakes, we'll be eating "twinkies".  It's depressing!  
    By the way, why do they bother making Bud Light?
    
    Boycott Bayshore,
    
    Bernie.

    if you wish something other than 'typical Canadian responses', why
    are you asking in the Canadian notes file eh? Go ask in the Swaheli notes
    file.
    If you want a real good hockey stick, you still have to go down to the
     local outdoor rink and steal it from a smaller kid. Let the kid's dad
     go to Wal Mart and buy the next one. 
    Live and let live 
    or else.
    (ps the Tie Store @Bayshore doesn't carry snowbag ties either)

    a tie for a snowbag? Hmm, do you use a full windsor knot or are we
    talking clip-ons here?

    Actually, not a windsor knot, but rather a Sarnia Note (topic 53.*).

Saw in the paper that John Labbat Ltd was bought up by Stella Artois, the
Belgian brewer ...   Then wasn't Molson owned by Fosters ... And wasn't
Carling O'Keefe bought by Molson ...  That leaves no major Canadian brewery
owned by Canadians ...

    Brian,  
    
    You really disappoint me.  Here I am, trying to help you see the light
    and you want me to go to some other conference.  Wake up man!  You of
    all people should know, being born in Chapeau just a few kilometers
    from the birthplace of my mother in law and having been brought up
    in the Big Nickel,  Sudbury, home of Mike Foligno and Canada's greatest 
    swimmer ever, Alex Baumann.
    
    From your last note is see that you're finally seeing the light. What
    next!  Canada Packers, Canadian Airlines, Hookers Beavertails?  Even the 
    Canada Cup has been messed up with as it's now known as the World Cup 
    with games being played in Europe and the U.S. of A.  Is nothing sacred 
    anymore?  Actually, don't worry about Molson and the rest of the
    breweries.  Most of us are now brewing our own so it was a good idea to 
    dump these companies.  I hear that the Grand Canal project will ensure
    for years to come that we have adequate supplies of water for our brews.
    
    And as I expected, nothing in the budget yesterday to save our butts. 
    At the very least, I was expecting a GST exemption on hockey equipment
    and a border crossing surcharge for anyone entering Bayshore.
    
    Save our bacon, burn Bayshore.
    
    Bernie.

    The "Hookers Beavertails" sounds interesting, I'll take 2 to go.
    
    You are being very un-canadian by getting upset and quite frankly,
    I'm hurt over here. I don't like your tone. I'm taking my stick and
    puck and I'm going home to listen to Lloyd read the news.

    This reminds me when driving from Detroit to Sarnia, arriving at the 
    northern end of I94 in Port-Huron, there was two road signs in a row:
    1) "Bridge to Canada"
    2) "Hookers Entrance"
    (actually, it was the drive-in entrance of a burger joint).

    Brian,
    
    If you're gonna be like that then I'm gonna get in my car tomorrow
    morning and do something Canadian...
    
    drive to Florida.
    
    FORE!
    
    Bernie.

    Speaking of Beer... Is 'Sleemans' Canadian owned? Anybody out there know?
    I have fallen in love with Sleeman's Dark! I use to drink Canadian,
    but have switched up. I also have a fix for Corona, I know it is Mexican,
    but it sure beats any American piss beer. 
    
    But if you want a wholesome Canadian brew, try Hart Amber, brewed in
    the lovely town of Carleton place. Also you can pick it up on Sundays
    at the brewery.
    
    Regards,
    
    Hossman
    Truly Canadian      

    Yup, Sleeman Breweries in Guelph is Canadian owned. They also have kept
    the incompatible bottles.
    
    I like the Cream Ale.

    Guelph is a cool place, I lived there for two years. The one thing that 
    struck me was the disproportionate number of retired mafia millionares.
    Maybe because Guelph is 50 min from Tarranna and 35 min from the much
    more desirable berg of Hamilton, that makes Guelph a cozy little get
    away. But, the Speed River? Sorry people that is not river it's a
    gutter. Hey! where does Sleemans get their water? Ah who cares, I like
    their Lager espeacially on a long warm summer evening.

    Deep
    Well
    Water

    
    One of the US Breweries put a lot of money into Sleemans (Stroh's, I
    think) but I think Dale Sleeman still has majority interest.
    
    A few years back when I stopped at the Brewery the owner's car was out
    front.  At least there was a Roll-Royce with a custom Ontario "Beer" 
    license plate in the lot, and I was the only person in the store.
    Never could figure out where a start-up business owner would get that
    kind of extra $$ that early.  Hmmmmm...
    
    Marshall 
    
    

    re-1
    where did he get the money? thats easy: he probably had a paper route
    when he was a kid, then of course there is the fairly fairyish toof
    fairy. But seriously, he probably got the money by begging on the
    street or cheating on welfare--that's how people git rich ain't it?

    re.15
    
    ee cummings
    would 
    be 
    envious
    for 
    that 
    was
    a 
    nice
    poem
    

    It comes naturally after polishing off a case of Sleeman's Cream Ale
    and looking at the bottom side of the bottle caps.
    
    

    once--just once, i dont want to give you any ideas, but, once i counted
    the number of bubbles on the surface of a bottle of sleemans lager.
    what i found out, as the warm summer afternoon warmed the case that
    reposed beside me, was that as the temperature of the beer began to
    rise the number of bubbles decreased as the bubbles became ever so
    slightly larger.
    

    
    Forget finger printing,  wackie tabackie stuff and unity.
    
    Here's a real sign that this country is going down the tubes!
    
    So I'm on my way to the hockey rink last night. No, not to play in
    the Stanley Cup but to play in my Summer hockey league.  I've got about
    a 20 minute drive and every self respecting Canadian knows that the 
    Stanley Cup finals are on.   I press the seek button on the car radio
    so that I can listen to the action between the Flyers and the Red
    Wings.  Hmmm, it's not on FM.  Let's try AM.  What!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!
    THE GAME IS NOT ON THE RADIO!  NOT EVEN on CEEBEECEE!!!  Mind you I was 
    able to tune in to TWO EFFFEN BASEBALL GAMES!!!  Who cares about
    baseball.  Actually listening to baseball while driving is
    dangerous...it puts you to sleep! 
    
    Last year I told you guys and gals that we were in trouble (see .0). 
    First the equipment disappeared from the stores and now the game is no
    longer on the radio.   
    
    The preservation of our National game should have been an election issue!!!
    
    Bernie.
    
    P.S. In case you were wondering,  I finally managed to get hockey 
    equipment thanks to a Finnish outfit.  You order by catalogue.  Now I, 
    like many Europeans, also have a helmet that looks like a garbarge can!